Nivelle eventually left the French command in an undignified way, ending his military career, and Petain became the new commander-in-chief of the French army, and it seemed that the French troops were back on the right track, but now Petain was facing far more difficulties than during the Battle of Verdun, and Petain needed more time to reorganize the French army.

For others, it may be helpless against the current French troops, but for Petain, taking over a mess on the spot is a familiar one, and he is very good at it.

Petain, who had just come to power, immediately took forceful measures, as he had done during the Battle of Verdun, on the one hand without excessively arousing the emotions of the French troops and avoiding a larger riot, and on the other hand, rectifying military discipline, arresting the soldiers who had shot the officers some time before, forcing the troops who had collectively rebelled to lay down their arms, and urgently dealing with a group of unforgivable rebels.

About 5,000 people were executed, others were imprisoned, and some were exiled to colonies.

While suppressing the rebels with an iron fist, Petain appeased the war-weary soldiers, gave them better treatment, more vacations, and vacated the hotels in Paris to accommodate those who were reunited with their families.

As the commander-in-chief of the French army, Petain was very different from his two high-ranking predecessors, Xia Fei and Nivelle, Petain did not like to live in a luxurious castle, preferring to be with the front-line soldiers, during this period when the French troops were in chaos, Petain visited 90 divisions of the French army, talked with the representatives of the soldiers, stood on the car to give speeches to the French soldiers, and dined with ordinary French soldiers.

The gradual return of the French troops to normalcy thanks to Petain's efforts gave Petain great prestige and, of course, a huge scandal that could not be eliminated for Petain in the future.

During this time when Petain was trying to regroup his troops, in order to divert the attention of the German army, the British Expeditionary Force was constantly attacking, attacking, and attacking.

The loss of Vimydorff was a huge blow to Ludendorff, Ludendorff learned the news of the German army's loss of Vimyling on April 9, this day was supposed to be Ludendorff's 52nd birthday, the German General Staff specially held a banquet for Ludendorff to celebrate, Ludendorff took the war telegram and hid in the corner of the banquet to reflect, he later recalled: I used to be confident to meet the enemy's attack, but now I feel depressed, is this the result of our hard work and hard work in the past six months?

Ludendorff finally found out the problem after studying the battle report of Arras, Ludwig von Falkenhausen, the commander of the Sixth Army in Arras, should be responsible for the defeat of the German army, Falkenhausen did not follow Ludendorff's orders, and when the British Expeditionary Force attacked, in the face of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which had an absolute advantage in strength, Falkenhausen did not order the troops to abandon the first line of defense in time, but ordered the troops to stay in positions and fight hard with the Canadian troops.

As a result, under the combined attack of the artillery units and air forces of the British Expeditionary Force, the Germans suffered heavy losses.

At this time, the second mistake made by Falkenhausen was also exposed, the three lines of defense of the Sixth Army were too close to each other, and after the first line of defense was lost, Falkenhausen did not have time to organize a defense, and the Canadian Expeditionary Force broke through the second and third lines of defense of the German army one after another with the cooperation of tank troops.

Falkenhausen continued to make mistakes by placing his reserves 15 miles away from the front line, only to be unable to reach the front line in time to provide adequate support to the front line after the battle broke out, and these mistakes combined to lead to the total collapse of the German army.

After determining the real cause of the German defeat, Falkenhausen was dismissed, Ludendorff had to reinforce the defense at Arras with troops from Sherman Dydam, and the danger to Paris was further reduced.

The geographical location of Vimy Ridge is very important, and controlling Vimy Ridge will allow you to control the vast plains east of Arras, so in last year's autumn offensive and this year's spring offensive, Vimy Ridge became the focus of contention between the German army and the British expeditionary force.

On April 12, the Canadian Expeditionary Force, which had captured Vimy Ridge, received Roque's order to attack and continued to advance.

But the road ahead was not smooth, the Germans blew up all the roads and bridges when they retreated, when the spring offensive was launched, there was also a snowstorm on Vimy Ridge, and now although the blizzard has ended, the ground is full of mud, the tanks have just started into mud puddles, and the supply of Canadian troops is also problematic, in order to appease the French troops, Kitchener sent a part of the supplies of the Canadian Corps to Paris, and now around Paris, nearly 1 million French troops are stationed.

The forward unit of the Canadian Corps was the 2nd Integrated Division, which was also a meritorious unit, and it was this unit that was the first to rush to Vimy Ridge.

Unlike the US military units, which pay attention to appearance, the Second Division did not have time to sort out the appearance of the army after many days of continuous operations, and the officers and men rolled in the mud puddles all day long, all of them were as dirty as mud monkeys, and many of them had already eaten up the food they had brought with them, and the soldiers shared the only food they had left with each other, and some officers and men could only get two biscuits a day.

"I really don't know what our commanders are thinking, there are only two pitiful biscuits a day, and we are so hungry to attack the Germans, aren't the commanders afraid that we will also learn from the French?" A corporal grumbled as he looked at the two biscuits in his hand, less than two to be exact, one of which was missing a corner.

"Shhh A sergeant next to him reminded that the Expeditionary Force Command had issued a gag order and that no one was allowed to discuss what had happened in Sherman Dydam.

"I'm not wrong, to give the supplies that originally belonged to us to the French who don't have enough to eat and what to do, and it is not good to lick the dog to death-" The corporal spat fragrantly, "What to eat is not enough, what to do" is a slang phrase from the Southern African Expeditionary Force, which was originally used to complain about the Indian Legion, and now it is also suitable to complain about the French troops.

As for licking the dog –

The verb was also circulated from the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and was originally used to complain about the British government.

After the great changes in the Russian Empire, the British government did not stop aiding the Russian Empire, and still gave the Russian Empire 20 million pounds a month, hoping that the Russian Empire would hold on.

But more and more people are not optimistic about the prospects of the Russian Empire, after the formation of the Provisional Government, Kerensky became the leader of the Provisional Government, he did not have enough experience in governing to effectively manage the Russian Empire, which was already on the verge of collapse, and no matter what orders Kerensky gave him, things would go in the worst direction, and Murphy's Law is fully demonstrated here.

Kerensky first tried to solve the problem of the army, and he issued an order to dismiss men over the age of 43 from military service, so that millions of veterans immediately chose to retire, and the already overcrowded railroad immediately collapsed.

Kerensky then abolished the death penalty for deserters, presumably in an attempt to boost morale, and as a result, millions more soldiers immediately abandoned their rifles and deserted.

It was in this situation that Ludendorff personally ordered someone to be put on a train to St. Petersburg.

"It cannot be said that we would not have been here at all if it weren't for the fact that the French troops withstood most of the attack of the German troops." A sergeant major finally told the truth, although it is true that the French troops did not perform very well, but they were indispensable.

Just like the Indian Legion, although the performance of the Indian Legion is more scummy, but without the Indian Legion, the British Expeditionary Force would not have the right to speak now.

During this period, the total number of troops was still a very important factor.

"What do you think our commander-in-chief will have for dinner?" The corporal took a bite of the biscuit and carefully picked up the fallen crumbs, which could not be wasted.

"There must be chicken legs!"

"A foot-long lobster!"

"What is a lobster, there must be foie gras and caviar to be worthy of the status of commander-in-chief-"

The topic of gossip is really popular, and questions about whether the flat pole used by the emperor is made of gold are always very marketable.

"Damn, can we talk about something else, listen to these things you guys, let me eat the hell-" The sergeant's expression was broken, looking at the biscuit in his hand—

Eat, eat, some are good.

"If you can't eat it, you can't talk about it—" The corporal ate a biscuit in five times before finishing it, perhaps it would be a little more psychologically comfortable.

At this time, a truck drove up in the distance, and the large red cross symbol on the body was very conspicuous.

During the war, this kind of Red Cross emblem was of little practical use, and the red-eyed officers and soldiers did not care about any international conventions, and the dead enemy was the best enemy.

The sergeant major and corporal didn't know what the truck was pulling, and when the truck came to a stop, there were faint cheers.

The sergeant major and corporal craned their necks to look, and several soldiers with rifles on their backs jumped out of the carriages, and then the familiar cardboard boxes were carried down.

Only those who have experienced hunger know what it is like to see the logo of a South African company when they are hungry.

Cheers erupted one after another, the whole position was boiling, and the trucks brought luncheon meat and coffee, although the quantity was not much, but it was enough for the officers and men of the reorganized Second Division to have a full meal.

When he received two boxes of luncheon meat and two bags of instant coffee, the sergeant major had never felt so cute.

"Gentlemen, this is specially sent to you by the Commander-in-Chief, including the Commander-in-Chief's dinner, the Commander-in-Chief has brought you all his own dinner, and he would rather be hungry himself than let the officers and soldiers on the front line go hungry-" The head chef who distributed the luncheon meat muttered, and before he handed out a box of luncheon meat, he had to repeat this passage.

The light luncheon meat in his hand suddenly became heavy.

(I was going to send it again at zero o'clock, but I think it's better to let the brothers be down-to-earth as soon as possible, and say that the fourth watch will be the fourth watch-)